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Handbook to the antiquities in the British Museum : being a description of the remains of Greek, Assyrian, Egyptian and Etruscan art preserved there, with numerous illustrations (1851)

Vaux, W. S. W. (William Sandys Wright), 1818-1885 · London : Murray · leaf 211

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it is best known.The flower has been conjectured to be that of the Nymphaea Lotus,whence the bust itself has been sometimes called Isis. The hair, whichappears very low upon the forehead, is divided, and falls in smallringlets upon the neck, which, with the left shoulder and part of thebosom, are… … T. 79. Clytie. Naples from the Laurenzano family, in whose possession it had beenfor many years, and is in exquisite workmanship. T. 54 is also the head of a female larger than life, the nameof whom cannot be determinately assigned, as there is no dis-tinguishing attribute. It was at one time…

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